Glory & Storytelling

[michael dobbie]

   Glory, if you want another view I didn't take it as
a personal letter. I thought it was great. To me it
just seemed to be the story that you needed to tell at
that moment. The ones with those kind of meaning and
power are the ones we should all somehow be able to
tell...
   ...and it's just so often that we don't...because
the Story is never the 'stories' we've trained
ourselves so well to tell...but it is the one that we
always carry, simply here in each moment. We ourselves
are that greatest Story each moment but just seem so
confused about telling, or knowing how to.
   Ah, to be true those moments, to be able to listen,
to just simply Live and Be the Story we know has to
told.
   But what a struggle and pain it so often ends up
being, yes, mainly for words...and so we have our
poets...and storytellers...
         ...that each ONE OF US IS!
   So lead the way girl!

   I like that saying about the Tao that seems to also
apply to the Story...the Story (the Tao) that you
think you can tell is not the true story (Tao).
   Like the Tao, the Story that needs to be told is
always one step ahead of what our minds perceive, or
would like it to be. All we can hope as storytellers
is, also be storylisteners, surrender ourselves to the
moment, surrender our plans and what we think (one of
the OS principles) and just embrace more fully who we
already are.
   The Story (our Life) is right here, no need to make
it anything more, something bigger or other than,
accept it the way it is and chooses to come out.

   Isn't that OS? There is nothing for us as
practitioners to do except to listen for the space and
be that space, be in our moment...accept and Be who
need to be, not a lot of explaining (which a lot of
'telling stories' and putting a spin on things ends up
being these days).

      all the best,
           Michael.



Date:    Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:32:34 -0500
From:    Glory Ressler <on.the.edge at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: ERROR!  Please delete my last message

Thank you Florian. And let me take this opportunity to
let everyone know that the story continues... no
mistakes - 'whatever happens...'  has been the result.

A self-made opportunity to trust the spacious universe
and all of you!
For all of you:
Thanks for deleting.
Thanks for peeking :-)
Thanks for reading before knowing to delete.
Thanks for the new (and less egocentric) perspective.
Thanks for responding so compassionately. I needed it
and still do.
Don't we all need each other so profoundly?

with love and gratitude,
glory

florian fischer wrote:

> don´t worry glory i, for example, deleted it promply
without reading. florian
>
> Glory Ressler schrieb:
>
>> Everyone,
>> I am mortified to realize that I just sent a
private email intended for Chris Weaver to the entire
list!!! I am horrified that I clogged this bandwidth
with such a personal sharing!
>> Please delete... Geez, I feel incredibly exposed
and vulnerable!
>> best,
>> glory
>> 'If it isn't a happy ending, our story isn't over yet.'

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